A Witch On The High Seas - A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Merryweather Mysteries Book 2) by Bankhead Jenny

Author:Bankhead, Jenny [Bankhead, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 2019-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Lorna intended to go to the ballroom to find Betty, but as she passed by the dining area, she caught sight of Raul. Should I get Betty, and we’ll question him together? she wondered. I can’t chance it, she decided. He might not be here by the time we get back. I’d better talk to him now.

She headed into the bar.

The brunch and lunch rushes were over. In place of the lunch buffet, the servers had placed out a long table full of flowers and appetizer trays. The waitstaff was bustling around, setting the round tables with white cloths, and putting out place settings for the more formal dinner ambiance.

Raul sat at the bar, seemingly oblivious to all of the commotion around him. It looked to Lorna, as she approached him, that the only thing he was aware of was the drink right in front of him. He stared into his glass as if it contained the answers to all of his problems—whatever those problems may be.

Did he kill Leon? Lorna wondered, eyeing him as she neared. Is he drinking away his sorrows, at having lost a friend, or is he drinking to soothe his guilt? If he did kill Leon, he might be feeling very guilty now, indeed. Oh, biscuits! Here I am confronting another murder suspect, and I haven’t got any way to defend myself. I must stop doing this!

But it was too late to turn back and make another plan, for at that moment, Raul noticed how near she was. She was only two feet away from him at this point, and he looked very annoyed by her intrusion into his personal space.

“What now?” he said. His tone was cold. So was the look in his eye.

“I saw you drinking alone,” Lorna said, deciding to ease into things. No use putting him on the defensive right away, she thought. “Everyone knows that drinking is best done with company.”

She laughed nervously and then managed to lift her bottom up onto the high bar stool. The move ended up being not quite as graceful as she hoped, but as she slipped, slid, and finally mounted the stool, she tried her best to keep her composure. I shouldn’t let him see my clumsiness, she scolded herself. It is better if he thinks I’m spry and agile.

Once on the stool, she looked over at Raul.

He was looking at her with disdain. “No offense,” he said, “but you’re not exactly the company I like to keep when I’m tying one on.”

Lorna had seen Raul chatting with women on the ship. They were always young, curvaceous, buxom young blondes that laughed at every word he said as he blew cigarette smoke into their pretty faces.

She tried not to let her true feelings show as she spoke again. “Well, I may not be your type—romantically. But can’t a man and a woman share a drink and a nice conversation, regardless of chemistry?”

Raul seemed doubtful of this. “At the moment, I’d rather drink alone,” he said flatly.

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